VS 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals
At TechEd this week Microsoft is going to be showing off the new VS 2005 Team Edition for Database Professional tool which is now part of the Visual Studio Team System line of products. You can learn more about it here. The first CTP build will be available to MSDN subscribers on June 11th.
It provides a number of pretty cool features including:
- Integrated source code control for database schema, scripts and sprocs
- Refactoring support in the database (allowing you to change objects and have everything update)
- Automated unit test support for SPROCs, T-SQL, etc
- T-SQL code editor support (including support for viewing execution plans)
- Schema and data compare support for quickly comparing databases
- Data generators for loading up databases with pre-populated test data
All the above features are also now integrated within the Visual Studio IDE, and can be used with the team collaboration features of Visual Studio Team System. Learn more about them all here.
Hope this helps,
Scott